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Can We Defeat Death? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
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1:03:48Now PlayingBryan Johnson thinks he can outrun death. After selling his tech company for hundreds of millions of dollars and abandoning his religion, he turned his own body into the ultimate science project, centered on an explicit mission: Don’t die.
I take his mission sincerely. So for my final episode, I wanted to know: why does Johnson want to live forever, and what lessons can we draw from his optimized lifestyle?
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